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When I call to mind my earliest impressions, I wonder whether the process ordinarily referred to as growing up is not actually a process of growing down; whether experience, so much touted among adults as the thing children lack, is not actually a progressive dilution of the essentials by the trivialities of living.
When I call to mind my earliest impressions, I wonder whether the process ordinarily referred to as growing up is not actually a process of growing down; whether experience, so much touted among adults as the thing children lack, is not actually a progressive dilution of the essentials by the trivialities of living.
Approximate author period: c. 1917 AD · modern
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- Aldo Leopold
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- Approximate author period: c. 1917 AD · modern
Approximate author-period evidence for Aldo Leopold: life dates 1887 to 1948. Wikidata Q971382, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q971382 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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